Written by Robert Spencer

They murdered 29 students. Boko Haram’s real name is Jama’atu Ahlus Sunnati Lidda’awati wal Jihad, which means the Party of the People of the Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad. It is carrying out is campaign of blood and terror for the goal of imposing Islamic law upon Nigeria and (given its activities outside that country) the surrounding areas. It is a movement that owes its existence to Islamic teaching, and which is devoted to implementing Islamic teaching. Yet in analyzing such movements, Western analysts begin by discounting the religious motive, in every case assuming that it must be a cover for something else. Then upon these mistaken assumptions they pile more mistaken assumptions, until we get the mess that is U.S. foreign policy today.

“Nigeria school raid ‘leaves dozens dead,’” from the BBC, February 25 (thanks to Darcy):

Suspected Islamist militants from the Boko Haram group in north-eastern Nigeria have attacked a school and shot some students, the military has said.

Dozens of pupils are reported to have been killed. Police told Reuters that all the dead were boys and that some of the bodies “were burned to ashes”.

The attack took place in troubled Yobe state, the military said.

Residents of the town... http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/02/nigeria-islamic-jihadists-raid-school-...